Data loss firm broke rules - Smith

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said a company which lost the personal details of thousands of criminals had broken rules for handling sensitive data.

The names, addresses and expected release dates of all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales were on a computer memory stick lost by Home Office external contractor PA Consulting.

It also contains the names, addresses and dates of birth of 30,000 people with six or more convictions in the last year, as well as the names and dates of birth of 10,000 offenders regarded as prolific and the initials of people on drug treatment programmes.

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